Small towns - and small minds - reject medical marijuana sitesLedger Live for February 23, 2012 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. A visit to the towns of Upper Freehold Township and Maple Shade, New Jersey, two towns in which officials rejected proposed medical marijuana facilities, despite the proposed sites being in out of the way locations. We also visit Montclair, where a facility was approved smack dab in the center of town, to compare attitudes toward medical marijuana there to towns that rejected the facilities.

They've got bars, liquor stores and a winery where folks can get tlipsy and, god forbid, go for a drive around town. They've made no stink about area pharmacies that dole out some of society's most widely abused drugs.

But when it comes to medical marijuana, town after town, including - Upper Freehold, Westampton and Maple Shade - have all said they don't want the stuff in their neighborhoods. Even if it's a tightly-controlled program for those with cancer and other debilitating diseases. And even if there's no real neighborhood to speak of.

For today's Ledger Live video blog, we visited the spots in all three of the towns where medical pot facilities had been proposed and rejected, searching in vain for the neighborhoods they supposedly endangered. And in our final stop, we visited Montclair, the one town that has officially welcomed a medical marijuana facility. (Athough Egg Harbor Township may be next). While just an hour drive from its counterparts, it's a world away in terms of how medical marijuana is viewed.